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On the Morals of the Catholic Church

Anti-Manichaean Writings · Saint Augustine of Hippo

  1. Title Page.
  2. Argument.
  3. How the Pretensions of the Manichæans are to Be Refuted.  Two Manichæan Falsehoods.
  4. He Begins with Arguments, in Compliance with the Mistaken Method of the Manichæans.
  5. Happiness is in the Enjoyment of Man’s Chief Good.  Two Conditions of the Chief Good:  1st, Nothing is Better Than It; 2d, It Cannot Be Lost Against the Will.
  6. Man—What?
  7. Man’s Chief Good is Not the Chief Good of the Body Only, But the Chief Good of the Soul.
  8. Virtue Gives Perfection to the Soul; The Soul Obtains Virtue by Following God; Following God is the Happy Life.
  9. The Knowledge of God to Be Obtained from the Scripture.  The Plan and Principal Mysteries of the Divine Scheme of Redemption.
  10. God is the Chief Good, Whom We are to Seek After with Supreme Affection.
  11. Harmony of the Old and New Testament on the Precepts of Charity.
  12. What the Church Teaches About God.  The Two Gods of the Manichæans.
  13. God is the One Object of Love; Therefore He is Man’s Chief Good.  Nothing is Better Than God.  God Cannot Be Lost Against Our Will.
  14. We are United to God by Love, in Subjection to Him.
  15. We are Joined Inseparably to God by Christ and His Spirit.
  16. We Cleave to the Trinity, Our Chief Good, by Love.
  17. The Christian Definition of the Four Virtues.
  18. Harmony of the Old and New Testaments.
  19. Appeal to the Manichæans, Calling on Them to Repent.
  20. Only in the Catholic Church is Perfect Truth Established on the Harmony of Both Testaments.
  21. Description of the Duties of Temperance, According to the Sacred Scriptures.
  22. We are Required to Despise All Sensible Things, and to Love God Alone.
  23. Popular Renown and Inquisitiveness are Condemned in the Sacred Scriptures.
  24. Fortitude Comes from the Love of God.
  25. Scripture Precepts and Examples of Fortitude.
  26. Of Justice and Prudence.
  27. Four Moral Duties Regarding the Love of God, of Which Love the Reward is Eternal Life and the Knowledge of the Truth.
  28. Love of Ourselves and of Our Neighbor.
  29. On Doing Good to the Body of Our Neighbor.
  30. On Doing Good to the Soul of Our Neighbor.  Two Parts of Discipline, Restraint and Instruction.  Through Good Conduct We Arrive at the Knowledge of the Truth.
  31. Of the Authority of the Scriptures.
  32. The Church Apostrophised as Teacher of All Wisdom.  Doctrine of the Catholic Church.
  33. The Life of the Anachoretes and Cœnobites Set Against the Continence of the Manichæans.
  34. Praise of the Clergy.
  35. Another Kind of Men Living Together in Cities.  Fasts of Three Days.
  36. The Church is Not to Be Blamed for the Conduct of Bad Christians, Worshippers of Tombs and Pictures.
  37. Marriage and Property Allowed to the Baptized by the Apostles.